If you haven’t read Shoba, I suggest you do. Her grace comes from being falliable, being one amongst us. She writes with insight and blends personal vignettes into almost all her pieces. I have reproduced an article by her, about how we choose our friends (or how we dont choose friends) depends how you look at the dimension. I can’t but agree 100% with this. I dont have too many friends (the anti-social animal that I am), but I can’t but feel that our society, especially the Indian one does not allow cutting across class/economic/power strata. (I love this comment. Thank you, whoever you are).